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Originally Posted by WarriorDiplomat
We do not need that many Philosophy and Social Science majors we need craftsman, Vocational technical training actual trade schools someone with an MBA, History degree etc....isn't bring anything to the table that experience does not teach....you can read basket weaving, philosophy etc...in your own time in the library useless degrees are exactly these they don't benefit society they don't build anything they do not understand the tangible world as most of us do like what survival and success looks like in real life the life we all experience.....god knows we don't need delusions of higher education we need producers, skilled workers etc....the machine needs replacement parts.....not shade tree quarterback kids and those who can't do that teach wrecking the success of entrepreneurship and hard work....there are very few jobs that actually require more than trade school training....How do we get people to quit praying to the higher education gods as being something they are not
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I recall about 6-7 years ago when the oil fields in the Dakotas were taking off and laid-off white-collar workers from very comfortable parts of the country were packing up everything and moving up to the badlands for manual labor jobs. The work wasn't pretty but the new workers were able to land very good paying jobs and be able to afford a home for their families. The funny part about all that was when the academia and political elite went apoplectic upon discovering many of those new oil company employees were high school graduates who went immediately into the workforce and were happy with their jobs because they were banking 6-figures, buying homes, leading productive lives, and not one bit of that time, money and energy was wasted on college.
I have one full BS degree in Outdoor Rec and Tourism from CSU. Having worked for a professional outfitter in the Colorado Rockies, I had planned on becoming a professional mountain guide and run my own operation. Unfortunately, by the time I realized the classwork proved to be more subjective BS than actual science, I was a starving college student and too far along to shift gears. I was also pretty much the anti-christ to most of my classmates and several of my professors. I got along better with the wildlife/fisheries and forestry students. Had I known ahead of time that wildlife and forestry degrees were more in line with my goal, I would opted for either one.
As for other higher learning, I have 3 out of 4 years in Industrial Design but knew I would never complete the program because I had no intention of being someone's intern bitch or working and designing stuff for someone else's benefit. Ironically, I opted to go back overseas and provide direct material support to ODAs via rapid fabrication, but everything we developed was immediately tagged as Lockheed's IP. As much as that annoyed me, it was still a fantastic job and it really helped me focus on how to start setting up my own operation.
I'd like to set up my own custom fab shop and eventually bring in other willing and able veterans who either need to learn a trade or craft or improve on the skills they already possess. It's ambitious, to say the least, but I believe there needs to be an alternative to college, especially for veterans. And any "lesbian philosophical basket weaving" or "Interpretive Harry Potter Studies" degree graduates can go play Hide-and-Go-F*ck-Yourself". I'm sure Starbucks or McDonalds could use the bodies.